Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is the leader of the pack — but Noah
Baumbach’s Marriage Story is not too
far behind as they head toward the homestretch .
That’s the takeaway for anyone handicapping the 13th
annual awards of the Houston Film Critic Society. Nominations for the
organization’s accolades were announced late Sunday evening, with winners to be
revealed during a Jan. 2 extravaganza at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Tarantino’s
audaciously entertaining and wish-fulfilling comedy-drama picked up a total of
seven nominations — including one in the HFCS’s Best Movie Poster Art Category
— while Baumbach’s intimate view of marital discord scored six nods. Both films
have been nominated for Best Picture, along with 1917, The Farewell, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Knives Out, Parasite, and Uncut Gems.
“We’re
a passionate, adventurous group,” says HFCS president Doug Harris. “This list
of nominees represents the thousands of screening hours our members have
devoted to uncovering the year’s most distinctive films so that we can bring
the best of cinema from around the world to the audiences we serve.”
Because of unusually close voting tallies, Harris added, some
categories have six, rather than the customary five, nominations. For example, six
actresses will compete for Best Actress, including Charlize Theron of Bombshell, Awkwafina of The Farewell, Renée Zellweger of Judy,
Scarlett Johansson of Marriage Story,
Saoirse Ronan of Little Women, and
Lupita Nyong’o of Us.
Johansson is
also up for Best Supporting Actress for Jojo
Rabbit, along with Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell;
Laura Dern, Marriage Story; Florence
Pugh, Little Women; Margot Robbie, Bombshell; and Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell.
Best
Actor nominees include Leonardo DiCaprio for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Adam Driver for Marriage Story, Eddie Murphy for Dolemite is My Name, Joaquin Phoenix for
Joker, and Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems.
Earlier
this month, the HFCS announced its nominees for the Texas Independent Film
Awards which honor films made in Texas: Bull,
Building the American Dream, Nothing Stays the Same: The Story of the Saxon
Pub, Seadrift and Sleeping in Plastic.
Winners
in 18 categories will be presented at the Jan. 2 event. But wait, there’s
more: Legendary producer, director and talent nurturer Roger Corman will be on
hand to receive a lifetime achievement
award. (The following evening, Jan 3, Corman will return to MFAH for a screening of his 1964 classic The Masque of the Death, and a post-screening Q&A conducted by... by... well, actually, by me.) And Ellyn Needham, wife of the late movie stunts pioneer Hal Needham, will
present the HFCS’s inaugural award for Best Stunt Coordination Team.
Tickets
for the 13th annual HFCS Awards can be purchased on the MFAH website.
Ticketholders will be invited to attend, at no additional charge, an after party
across the street from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at the Ultimate Ransom
Room at the Hotel ZaZa Houston Museum District.
The
Houston Film Critics Society’s 13th Annual Movie Awards are
underwritten in part by Leonard Courtright and the Keystone Family of Companies,
with additional support provided by Balcones Distilling.
2019
Houston Film Critics Society Nominations
Best
Picture
1917; The Farewell; The Irishman; Jojo Rabbit; Joker; Knives Out;
Marriage Story; Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood; Parasite; Uncut Gems
Best
Director
Bong
Joon Ho, Parasite; Sam Mendes, 1917; Martin Scorsese, The Irishman; Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood; Lulu
Wang, The Farewell
Best
Actor
Leonardo
DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood;
Adam Driver, Marriage Story; Eddie
Murphy, Dolemite is My Name; Joaquin
Phoenix, Joker; Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
Best
Actress
Awkwafina, The Farewell; Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story; Lupita Nyong’o, Us; Saoirse Ronan, Little Women; Charlize Theron, Bombshell; Renée Zellweger, Judy
Best
Supporting Actor
Willem
Dafoe, The Lighthouse; Anthony
Hopkins, The Two Popes; Al Pacino, The Irishman; Joe Pesci, The Irishman; Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Best
Supporting Actress
Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell;
Laura Dern, Marriage Story; Scarlett
Johansson, Jojo Rabbit; Florence
Pugh, Little Women; Margot Robbie, Bombshell; Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell
Best
Screenplay
Knives Out; Marriage
Story; Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood; Parasite; The Farewell
Best
Cinematography
1917; The Irishman;
The Joker; Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood; Parasite
Best
Animated Feature
Frozen II; How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World; I Lost My
Body; Missing Link; Toy Story 4
Best
Original Score
1917; Joker; Little
Women; Marriage Story; Us
Best
Original Song
Glasgow,
Wild Rose; Home to You, The Aeronauts; I Punched Keanu Reeves, Always Be My Maybe; (I’m Gonna) Love Me
Again, Rocketman; Into the Unknown, Frozen II; Stand Up, Harriet
Best
Foreign Language Film
Atlantics; Corpus Christi; Les Miserables; Monos; Pain
and Glory; Parasite
Best
Documentary Feature
American Factory; Apollo 11; Biggest Little Farm; For
Sama; Hail Satan; They Shall Not Grow Old
Texas
Independent Film Award
Bull; Building the American Dream;
Nothing Stays the Same: The Story of the Saxon Bar; Seadrift; Sleeping in
Plastic
Visual
Effects
1917; Ad Astra; Avengers: Endgame
Best Stunt Coordination Team
Crawl; Ford v Ferrari; Furie; John
Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum; Shadow
Best
Movie Poster Art
Birds of Passage; John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum; Once Upon a
Time… in Hollywood; Parasite; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; The Last Black Man in
San Francisco.
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